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MR. STANLEY, in the work he has already done, has made a substantial contribution to African geography, and the last letters from him which have recently appeared in the Daily Telegraph raise eager hopes that shortly we shall hear of his having accomplished work of even greater value. We do not propose to recapitulate the narrative with which most of our readers must be familiar from the interesting letters in the Telegraph, but briefly to point out, with the aid of the accompanying map, how much Mr. Stanley has in these letters added to our knowledge. Of course our map does not pretend to rigid accuracy, its object being simply to show Mr. Stanley's route, the amended outline of the Victoria Nyanza, and the main features of the country traversed by him. It is not our desire to take up space with conjectural geography, nor to reconcile Mr. Stanley's statements with those of previous travellers, nor to discuss what is likely to be the tendency of future discoveries. All this seems to us unnecessary at present, as there is every probability that we shall not have long to wait for accurate and full information from the various travellers that are now in the field.
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Stanley's African Discoveries . Nature 14, 373–375 (1876). https://doi.org/10.1038/014373a0
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